Roe has already been hollowed out by laws that make it hard for clinics to operate. Six states have only one clinic left
As women get out of their cars, the protesters step it up. “Ma’am, this is your grandchild!” one woman calls to another who is hurrying her teenage daughter inside. “Don’t lead it to the slaughter!” A man in a red baseball cap embroidered with a cross yells through a fence to patients inside. An escort wearing a “Pro abortion witch” face mask turns up a stereo blasting rock music to drown out his noisy exhortations to follow the Lord and refrain from committing murder.
The filings were made ahead of the most important Supreme Court hearings on abortion in decades. On December 1st the court will hear arguments inwhich concerns Mississippi’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks. In 2018 a court blocked the law because it violates rulings that abortion on demand is a right until a fetus becomes viable.
Mississippi is one of 12 states with a “trigger ban” that would click into effect, eliminating most abortions, ifhas already been hollowed-out by laws that make it hard for clinics to operate. Six states have only one clinic left.
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